Teachers’ rally photos

November 9, 2009 by Steve Rawley

Working for peanuts

1,500 marchers stretched almost four city blocks

Teachers are being asked to return to pre-2007 pay levels, even as they take on more responsibilities.

Teachers hit their 500th day without a contract this week.

Robb Cowie watches the festivities from above with a friend. (“George, are you all right? Do you need any police?”)

Steve Rawley published PPS Equity from 2008 to 2010, when he moved his family out of the district.

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Willamette Week donates “surplus” paper to Woodlawn, Boise

November 9, 2009 by Steve Rawley

When staff at BESC sold (and bought for themselves) “surplus” supplies at below market prices last month, Willamette Week bid unsuccessfully on a kiln and a pallet of paper, with the intention of donating them back to the schools. The buyer of the paper, who paid $100, agreed to give some of it to WW for that purpose, and Friday, WW announced it would be donated to Woodlawn and Boise-Elliot K8 schools.

A Boise-Elliot parent commented on the original WW story that there was no homework for fourth grade students due to a lack of copier paper. A teacher at Woodlawn, which she describes as “yet another inadequately funded PPS Pre-K-8 school,” said she and her colleagues would have gladly accepted the toilet paper, since the school can no longer afford to provide Kleenex to classrooms (even during the worst flu outbreak in recent history).

Steve Rawley published PPS Equity from 2008 to 2010, when he moved his family out of the district.

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